Paul D. Ryan

U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district

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Mr. Ryan is kicking off the "Romney Plan For a Stronger Middle Class" Ohio bus tour with a town hall rally in Lima, Ohio, on Monday afternoon. He will hold another rally in Cincinnati on Tuesday morning, before handing bus-tour duty over to Mitt Romney. The Republican ticket will not appear together on the bus tour.

Background

Representative Paul D. Ryan, a seven-term Wisconsin Republican who first won his seat at age 28, is not just a rising G.O.P. star; he may be the party’s most important figure other than Mitt Romney. The chairman of the House Budget Committee, he has become perhaps the most influential policy maker in the Republican Party, its de facto head of economic policy, intent on erasing deficits through a fundamental transformation of the federal government. Lauded by members of both parties as serious and likable, Mr. Ryan ignored calls to enter the 2012 presidential race and has been a frequent surrogate for Mr. Romney, joining him often on the campaign trail.

Recent Times Articles About Paul D. Ryan

WASHINGTON — Gone is the private jet and the motorcade that swept him from the tarmac to the private hotel entrances. His security staff has been reduced to a few Capitol Police officers, soon to fade away. Representative Paul D.

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — The question of tipping the political scales in Arizona, like anyplace, is “purely mathematical,” Bruce Merrill said. More people voting for the other side matters only if enough of them vote to overcome the power of a loyal base of voters. Dr.

WASHINGTON — As Representative Paul D. Ryan casts about to find an explanation for the defeat of the Republican presidential ticket, on which he was Mitt Romney’s running mate, he is looking to the nation’s big cities for answers.

BOSTON — For Representative Paul D. Ryan , defeat is not the political career-ender that it is for Mitt Romney. For one thing, he still has his day job — he won an eighth term from his Wisconsin district on Tuesday. For another, Mr.

CINCINNATI — Representative Paul D. Ryan may have largely disappeared from the national spotlight down the campaign homestretch, ceding attention to Mitt Romney . But if the Republican ticket prevails, Mr.

On a Monday night in late September, Paul Ryan sat on the edge of a couch in his suite at the Cincinnatian Hotel, his left fist clenched so tightly around the neck of his bottle of Miller Lite that I could see the veins bulging in his hands.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — The Republican ticket has all but taken up residence in vital Ohio : Mitt Romney spent four days in the state this week and Representative Paul D. Ryan two, with plans to return Monday. Ohio, which two weeks ago seemed to be slipping from Mr.

The vice-presidential debate on Thursday provoked heated discussion into the next day. Here are a look at two disputed claims. Leaving Afghanistan At the debate, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. could not have been more emphatic: By the end of 2014 Americans will be out of Afghanistan. “We are leaving.

Joe Biden knew Lloyd Bentsen. Lloyd Bentsen was a friend of Joe Biden’s. And the vice president made full use of his old Senate colleague’s 1988 debate playbook, shaking his head and scoffing pityingly at Representative Paul D. Ryan , trying to paint his opponent as a latter-day Dan Quayle. Mr.

As Representative Paul D. Ryan debated Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday night, he sometimes seemed to be defending his own past budget and Medicare proposals as much as his running mate’s plans — sometimes in misleading ways. When Mr.

WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan set out Thursday to turn what the White House considers one of President Obama’s strongest assets into a liability, asserting that his administration’s foreign policy was “unraveling.” But from Libya and Iran to Afghanistan and Syria, Mr.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Near the end of the first debate ever of vice-presidential candidates, Senator Bob Dole remembered his White House-prepared briefing materials on war casualties under various administrations — and used them.

Over three days last week, Representative Paul D. Ryan reserved an indoor tennis court at a Virginia resort — not to practice his backhand, but to hold mock debates. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been at his own debate camp in Delaware this week, overseen by President Obama’s top political strategist, David Axelrod.

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s campaign is working feverishly to restore its momentum after a lackluster debate performance last week, an effort that began with a conference call 10 minutes before the debate even ended and led to new advertisements, a rewritten stump speech, a carefully timed leak and a reversal of months-old strategy.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — President Obama , running for a second term in the job he has held for nearly four years, presented himself on Friday as an outsider seeking to change Washington and painted Mitt Romney as looking to do an “inside job.” Mr. Obama, stung by Mr.

RACINE, Wis. — To Mitt Romney , the 10 electoral votes in Wisconsin may be more essential than extra, a critical backup plan if a first-tier battleground state falls out of reach. Seven weeks until the election, with Mr.

PAINESVILLE, Ohio — One of the advantages of the partnership between Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan is their ability to offer varied messages on the campaign trail — unusually varied, as shown on Friday.

GOLDEN, Colo. — President Obama and Mitt Romney entered new political terrain on Thursday as their campaign debate moved more solidly onto issues of foreign policy, a subject that had largely been absent as a major general election issue until this week.